What have you done with your bike/s today?

[Worty]

Berger mate, got a bit of time on your hands by any chance

[berger]

wortluck, I think it is a case of getting older and not being in so much of a hurry. taking more time over studying things instead of jumping around shouting " what the f@@k is up with this now!!!". I remember you saying you get into Derbyshire now and again. I think we will have to meet somewhere near lady bower this summer if your up for it

[Worty]

Heh, yeah - still jump up and down cursing at most things, although I should take it easier now.

Let me know when you're around Ladybower.  My usual route out of Wakefield is down to Barnsley, follow the A628 through Woodhead Pass then via Glossop and on to Snake Road.  After that I jump on to Mortimer Road (proper tricky) through to Penistone then back on the M1 for a couple of junctions.  It's a very decent run done in around 3 hours or so.  Occasionally, I go through Holmfirth and come back onto the A628 at Woodhead.

Take care mate, poss see you sometime.

[Butch (cb)]

Changed the oil on my turbo trainer – does that count? It’s basically a brake for bicycles so you can ride on the spot for no good reason. I used to race so it was part of my training regime.
Pulled it out of the shed after some years of neglect and it all felt suspiciously easy. It’s a fluid chamber with a vaned rotor in there. So I reckoned maybe a goodly amount of fluid had gone west.
After prevaricating over whether brake fluid or ATF might be best I went with the latter. Managed to pop it open strain off what there was of some clear and slightly viscous looking fluid and then fill it up. Seems to be working OK again now, as in it has me raising a sweat and I can’t pull top gear now. And I get to sit in front of The A Team on the TV whilst I wind away. 

[RDfella]

Whenever I see a gym or someone exercising it reminds me of when I was younger (lots younger). I used to do weight lifting until one day it suddenly dawned on me - there I was sweating away for a couple of hours two or three times a week, and I was paying for the privilege, when that sort of effort normaly meant getting paid! I gave it up soon after. Anyway, it was taking up valuable time that could be spent drinking or chasing girls. No contest.

[Greybeard]

Whenever I see a gym or someone exercising it reminds me of when I was younger (lots younger). I used to do weight lifting until one day...
...I gave it up soon after. Anyway, it was taking up valuable time that could be spent drinking or chasing girls. No contest.

Ah, but you were risking getting sand kicked in your face on the beach by that bloke who'd done the Charles Atlas course!

[RDfella]

And from the same era "dear Charles Atlas, I've done the course, now please send me the muscles"
Beach was never my scene anyway - nor pubs much. Rock n roll nightclubs for me.

[Worty]

You're right RDfella, could never see the point in using up valuable energy and time running.  If anything, wear yourself out doing something useful.  Now it's DIY, cleaning and fixing bikes, garden stuff, lugging things about for no good reason, etc.  When I was younger it was bikes, booze and birds(sic of my youth).   The only time I've used the wife's running machine has been occasionally when I've felt I've sat around the house doing nothing for too many days (usually when we have a spell of appalling weather).  This fad of running marathons and doing 'runs' is lost on me.

[Greybeard]

Due to dodgy knees and ankles I am unable to run.

[Worty]

I tried that with the missus GB, but she sussed it when seeing me kicking the ol' girl up (the bike, that is).

[Angus]

yesterday. Oil change for the A7 and check levels. Tried some Viton O Rings to replace the cork on a leaky petrol tap but they leaked like a sieve, so put a new cork on and that is leak free (for now). Any body else know of any other alternatives.

[mikeb]

any other alternatives.

ewarts taps? i tried o-rings and they were so tight i couldn't operate them. so i think its either new corks (soaked etc) so get a different style of tap.

[beezermacc]

Not my bike but..... Just been round to a mate's house to get an A10 going which hasn't been run for 47 years. I built the bottom end for the owner about 10 years ago and rebuilt the magneto for him at about the same time. He almost finished building the bike before contracting a terminal illness which sadly prevented him from seeing the bike completed. The bike has passed to his son who asked me to give it a final check before we attempted to start it. We reset the tappets and ignition timing, checked oil circulation, and away it went, second kick! Sounds lovely.  The bike's colour scheme has got nothing to do with me!

[chaterlea25]

Hi Beezermac
The facebook link is restricted to the members friends
Anyhow well done 

John

[Bsareg]

Started the just rebuilt tiger cub for the first time. Oh the noise, oh the power........ Might be too much for me 🤔